Potatoes are sometimes treated in a similar way.
~13.~ By distilling beer, a strong liquor known as whiskey is obtained.
Sometimes juniper berries are distilled with the beer.

The liquor obtained is then called gin.

In the West Indies, on the great sugar plantations, large quantities of liquor are made from the skimmings and cleanings of the vessels in which the sweet juice of the sugar-cane is boiled down.

These refuse matters are mixed with water and fermented, then distilled.

This liquor is called rum.
~14.~ Now you have learned enough about alcohol to know that it is not produced by plants in the same way that food is, but that it is the result of a sort of decay.